My guess is that it is related to an older version of Firefox. If something should be working and it's not related to Firefox would have to go to the Firefox forums to ask those questions
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/get-community-support
screen shots didn't work. I would keep system restore enabled in case an event happened and you needed to restore to an earlier date. I know that after a while the older ones will be deleted allowing newer ones to be created.
I leave group policies where they are, can be difficult to change later. At least your educating yourself on the inner workings of an operating system.
I'm on the end of malware removal, I do know there are many people sending in samples daily so it might take a while to see and analyze files submitted and added to definitions.
Tools that go after cleaning the registry should actually be left alone. No registry cleaner is completely safe since most do not even create a backup the potential is ever present to cause more problems than they claim to fix.So in on of the posts, it says: View attachment 12636 I have Auslogics Boostspeed(and AVG PC Tuneup 2012 another program I've used in the past), and this program falls under that right, since it apparently also has a memory manager/optimizer/registry cleaner of sorts with it? So they are just a gimmick then? So I shouldn't really bother with these stuff and just be fine with only Ccleaner and a program to defrag HDDs and that's it for any cleaning and optimization? I remember reading something that it says it will just push those programs from memory into pagefile system, but if you don't have that(mine's disabled)....where does the memory allocation go to?
The other tools from Boostspeeds are convenient at times, such as Disk Defrag, Startup Manager, Tweak Manager, Locked Files Manager, Uninstall Manager(used to use this but Revo replaces this as it's superior), and Internet Optimizer. So what about registry defrag, is that another unneeded optimization?
I would have thought an optimization program like BoostSpeed is just a more comprehensive version of Ccleaner takes off where Ccleaner leaves as it would appear that BoostSpeeds picks up some more stuff that Ccleaner is wasn't able to pick up.
My usual routine I used to follow but don't anymore or not as much now (coz I'm lazy!) was this:
>Scan computer for virus/malware
>Clean with Ccleaner
>Further clean and optimize with BoostSpeed/PC TuneUp (which ever is installed)
> Backup/move files/folders now that you they are virus/malware free
>Profit
If you do not have knowledge of the registry, then you would probably be better off leaving it alone, and definitely not placing blind trust in a program to do the job for you. Ones that take care of more simpler jobs are acceptable, defrag or boost speed by disabling startups can be used so that later you can change these items if needed.
I would keep the host files setup from SpyBot since it's updated more frequently.
If malware is running, or calling home, it does it with all tools running to catch the malicious files to be cleaned. Sometimes by going into safemode a virus isn't working because of how few windows files run at that time and is a good time to try and run removal tools to take advantage of this.
By the time we ask for an online scan, it's our hope we're going after remnants. Being connected to the internet makes no difference unless it was malware designed to make connections impossible.
The design of the Crypto (variants) run regardless connected to the internet or not, even run hidden for a very short time by design then deletes it's own executable file. What it does behind the scenes isn't caught till the damage done.
I think your computer is clean and your good to go.
